I have a .txt document with the following format:
15. What is the average airspeed velocity of a sparrow?
a. 1,000,000
b. African or European
c. With or without a coconut
d. Your Mother smells of elderberries
Answer: d
What I'd like to do is make two separate files:
One like this:
15. What is the average airspeed velocity of a sparrow?
a. 1,000,000
b. African or European
c. With or without a coconut
d. Your Mother smells of elderberries
One like this:
15. Answer: d
The idea being that I want to separate the Answers and the Questions. I can't seem to get started properly. I understand I need to match certain words and that I need to hold the Question number in a variable for a moment while I get the answer so I can put them together but I am getting confused on the process. Not so much on the code.
How would you do this? (Psuedo code welcomed)
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ellem@optonline.net
There's more than one way to do it, but only some of them actually work.
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